The work explores suspension of faith in science and organized belief systems. It questions beliefs of commonly held “truths” through personal experience in the process and physical nature of destruction and reconstruction of the body.

Through explorations in science, medicine, and the idea of faith I hope to explore events that are beautiful, horrific, and touch the sublime. Included are subjects of biology, micro and macro environments, life cycles, and nature as it applies to the human condition specific to moments of injury or events in a body’s history.

My current work has developed from the exploration of abstracted and realistic depictions of wounds to investigations of the failure of the body, manifested by abstracted and explosive biological landscapes and formations. The work expresses the pushing and pulling of nature, the construction and deterioration of body, and the evidence that eludes to a history of injury.

Methods and Materials

These two monotypes were created at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center during my key-holder residency. A major part of these pieces is the size and physicality of working on a large scale directly on the press bed. It offers an immediacy and scale I could not achieve in my normal studio. They are 300 gm Rives BFK with etching ink.